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Department Statistics
- A department which combines quality teaching
with cutting-edge research done with undergraduate students.
- Nation's top undergraduate research mentor in
2001 (American Physical Society award to Paul DeYoung).
- Nine faculty members, a laboratory director,
and a research technician.
- 80% of recent physics majors attend graduate
school.
- Over $2 million in grants since 1995.
- Supported research in astrophysics.
- Active in curriculum reform for the teaching
of physics to majors and also students in area outside of the sciences.
- Supported research in heavy-ion physics (both
experimental and theoretical).
- 2.7 million volt Van de Graaff accelerator laboratory.
- Modern laboratories including computerized General
Physics Laboratory, Electronics Laboratory, Computer Aided Design Laboratory,
and Senior Projects Laboratory.
- Research programs on campus, at national laboratories,
at NASA laboratories.
- Research supported through grants from the National
Science Foundation, Research Corporation, NASA, and the Michigan Space
Grant Consortium.
- 20 students were supported during the summer
of 2005.
Graduate Schools Accepting Recent Graduates
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California Institute of Technology |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Case Western Reserve |
Cornell University |
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Georgia Institute of Technology |
Kings College - London, England |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Michigan State University |
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North Carolina State University |
Northwestern University |
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Pennsylvania State University |
Purdue University |
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Princeton |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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Stanford University |
State University of New York-Stony Brook |
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University of California-Berkeley |
University of California-Santa Barbara |
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University of Chicago |
University of Colorado |
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University of Illinois |
University of Kentucky |
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University of Michigan |
University of Minnesota |
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University of Notre Dame |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Yale |
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